A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Dec. 31, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. The messages are available by searching for the listed CBP message number at CBP's ADCVD Search page.

CBP issued 87,684 agriculture emergency action notifications (EANs) in FY 2025, which is 11% higher than FY 2024 and 25% higher than FY 2023, according to data recently updated on CBP's website.

CBP released a fact sheet to aid importers in transitioning to electronic refunds via automated clearing house (ACH) beginning Feb. 6, as mandated in a Jan. 2 CBP interim final rule (see 2512310016), it said in a CSMS message that same day. The agency said it “recently improved” the ACH refund sign-up process by adding an automated ACH refund authorization tool in the ACE Portal, as well as by automating the ACE Portal’s importer account application, “which is necessary to access the new ACH Refund Authorization tool.”

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The 25% tariffs on upholstered furniture, and wooden cabinets and vanities will continue throughout 2026, instead of increasing to 30% for furniture and 50% for cabinets and vanities, as initially indicated in September (see 2509300017).

Taylor Budowich, a former White House aide in the second Trump administration, has been appointed to a two-year term on the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, starting Jan. 1. Leland Miller, an expert on China’s economy, and Jonathan Stivers, a former Democratic congressional aide, were reappointed to two-year terms on the panel.

China imposed tariffs of 55% on imports of beef beginning Jan. 1, the country's Ministry of Commerce announced Dec. 31, according to an unofficial translation. The measures, which will last three years, came at the end of an antidumping investigation instituted at the end of 2024. The tariffs are levied on top of the current rate and apply to imports of beef over a set quota of 2.7 million metric tons in total from all countries. The quota for U.S. imports is 0.164 million tons in the first year and will increase to 0.171 million tons by the third year.

Congress may want to assert itself on trade in softwood lumber, whether by codifying higher tariffs to protect the U.S. lumber industry, or by pushing for a new softwood lumber agreement to end trade remedies. A Dec. 30 Congressional Research Service report also said that Congress could commission a report "on the benefits and costs of softwood lumber duties for the U.S. economy."

The International Trade Commission published notices in the Dec. 31 Federal Register on the following antidumping and countervailing duty injury, Section 337 patent or other trade proceedings (any notices that warrant a more detailed summary will be in another ITT article):

The International Trade Commission seeks comments by Jan. 10 on a Section 337 complaint alleging that imports of medical imaging devices infringe patents held by MolecuLight, it said in a notice to be published Jan. 2 in the Federal Register. According to the complaint, MolecuLight is seeking a limited exclusion order and cease and desist orders against Kent Imaging Inc. of Canada and Adiuvo Diagnostics of India to bar from entry "certain medical imaging devices" that violate its patents. MolecuLight said that its products are "medical imaging devices for the identification, diagnosis, and treatment of wounds."